Theoretical Physics in Crisis

Contemporary fundamental theoretical physics has been in crisis for a long time, as it cannot provide an answer to the most important question: “What is the basic structural unit of matter (space, time, energy) and how is the universe constructed of these elementary units?” The reason for this situation is explained below. Also shown, is the way to find answers to these basic questions. Crisis of Contemporary Theoretical Physics The contemporary crisis of thinking and knowledge is a consequence of positivism and its various branches leading to the extinction of philosophy and refusing to deal with the basic philosophical questions. Positivism became the basis for scientific knowledge replacing Hegelian dialectical rationalism, in which the classical philosophy had achieved its apex. Positivism tried to create the principles for scientific research based on the rules of formal logic and experiment, where the axiomatic approach became a starting point for finding the useful scientific results. Positivism refused to deal with the basic philosophical questions and categories regarding the nature of Being, God and the physical Universe. The way to the truth became “scientific” with many successful and useful discoveries and inventions. The dialectic logic was rejected as speculative, sophistic, metaphysical and useless and replaced by formal logic which together with mathematics and experimental verifications became the basic methods of scientific research mainly in the sphere of theoretical physics. The range of knowledge was limited to the phenomenological level of reality. Mathematics and physics are considered to be the most suitable instruments for describing Nature. Positivism removed the language of dialectics and accepted only the language of formal logic. Looking for the truth was inserted into the simple schemes of statement logic. Positivistic science is finding the true knowledge according to the following scheme: If statement A is valid, then the statement B is valid also (A=>B). This means, if starting assumptions (axioms) A are valid, then all results B are valid too, if we obtain them by the rules of formal logic and correct mathematical procedures. Then we test whether some results B can be confirmed by experiment. If yes, we suppose that the starting axioms A are valid and the theory, based on them, is correct. If results B have not been experimentally tested, the starting system of axioms is considered to be a scientific hypothesis. But we can never be sure whether axiomatic theory is the only one, as the results B can also be derived from other theories with different initial axioms A. The typical example of a positivistic axiomatic theory is Einstein ́s Special Relativity Theory (SRT) based on two axiomatic assumptions: 1. Speed of light c is the same towards all uniformly moving systems. 2. All uniformly moving systems are equivalent from the viewpoint of physical laws. SRT is mathematically consistent but unphysical theory as it doesn ́t consider the fact that objects move in a physical environment vacuum and time dilation (deceleration of processes) can be only the consequence of increasing intensity of interaction (mutual local